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First in importance: Clean after every use, more often if in dust.

Second in importance: Use very, very, very little lubricant.

Third in importance: Use either oil or grease depending upon your personal preferences, temperature, use, etc.

To steal a phrase: "JUST DO IT!"

Shooters Choice puts up a red grease in a white syringe dispenser. I like this handy form of dispenser and can refill it with good quality grease. I think cleaning the mating surfaces after each outing and applying clean grease just before each use is most important to prevent carbon and other grits from damaging the gun - more so than a specific grease. Oil is a bit too thin for the heavy wear surfaces and runs away from where it is needed in hot weather.

I've never noticed any 'carbon' on the hinge pin.

Vaseline and 3-in-1; guns can't tell it's not RIG. Sometimes Lubriplate or as a special treat (for the gun) Plastilube.

jack

There was a fairly detailed discussion of double gun hinge lubricant on NitroExpress.com about three years back. Here's a link to the thread. You may find some helpful information there.

http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=21207&page=0&fpart=1&vc=1

Curl

Thanks for all of your helpful responses to this slippery question of mine.

Another thought, "I hope someday I too can be the proud recipient of some number of stars (doublegunshop star rating system)......one or two would make my day."

John

CptCurl:

Roscoe, thanks for the link to 'NitroExpress.com'.....it's the link I was hoping to locate for the Timken OK Load ratings for various greases; ie., Cheveron Ultra-duty EP (Extreme Pressure) @ 70 and Citgo Mystic JT-6 @ 80. I didn't get the stuff three years ago, upon reading the post, but will seek it out for my hinge-pins/trunions in the next few days. Thanks a million!

John

John, you are welcome. I thought the link might be helpful. It actually contains some technical discussion alongside the ubiquitous opinions. I thought the discussion was helpful at the time (3 years ago), and it still is the best discussion I have seen on the topic.

One tube of high-quality grease will last for a long time. My practice is to gather up a bunch of those little glass jelly jars that now appear on breakfast buffets in nice restaurants. I wash them and refill them with grease from the big tube. The tube is cardboard, so you can trim it down as you take out the grease. That makes it easier to handle. I put the little jars of grease in all my gun cases, in my range box, and in every convenient location. I always have grease at hand, for very little cost.

Curl

I went to the link suggested and read it. Interesting comments. My favorite was the one who used a tiny bit of ATF, on safari but grease when "not in use". Not in use would not require anything, seems to me. Grease when you are USING the gun is what will prevent it from getting "gauld" (galled). I also believe it doesn't have to cost $17.95 per cc plus $9.95 shipping. Whatever grease you like or have at hand is fine, just keep it clean and fresh, as my first post suggested. Vaseline gets awfully thin in the hot Southwest summers. Better than nothing but it wouldn't be my first choice. Some prefer oil. Anything is better than nothing. Neither "attract" dirt and/or grit as is so often mis-stated in these threads.